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Retaliation, ambulance service volunteer

January 31, 2026 By lilly

RETALIATION: Complaints against ambulance service volunteer EMT stemming from denial of request to provide Narcan training properly rejected by HRC… Breuner affirmed (memorandum). [Read more…]

Filed Under: Past Issues, Supreme Court - Civil Tagged With: David Gallik, Stuart Segrest, Vicki Bignell

Marital, modified child support prior to CSSD notice

April 6, 2024 By lilly

MARITAL: Modified child support properly ordered prior to wife receiving notice from CSSD… Menahan affirmed. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Past Issues, Supreme Court - Civil Tagged With: David Gallik, Michelle Vanisko

Easement, permissive, $15,000 trespass, $15,000 assault

September 30, 2023 By lilly

EASEMENT: Use of road permissive, no prescriptive easement… $15,000 trespass damages to Plaintiff, $15,000 civil assault damages to Defendant… McMahon affirmed (memorandum). [Read more…]

Filed Under: Past Issues, Supreme Court - Civil Tagged With: David Gallik, Erin Lyndes, Mark Lancaster

Easement, landlocked river properties, $96,650 fees cut

August 21, 2021 By lilly

EASEMENT: Implied easement by preexisting use properly found for residential use of landlocked river properties that have no other means of access but improperly found to extend to other HOA members… all HOA members properly found to have prescriptive easement for residential and recreation… easement for use by public improperly found as HOA did not assert its claim on behalf of the public… UDJA appropriate for HOA to seek attorney fees for easement claims, but $96,650.18 attorney fees/costs improperly awarded as both parties had good faith beliefs supporting their claims and insufficient evidence of unequal footing… Pinski affirmed, reversed. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Past Issues, Supreme Court - Civil Tagged With: Anne Sherwood, David Gallik, Frederick Sherwood

Failure to prosecute 2007 horse injury suit

May 1, 2021 By lilly

FAILURE TO PROSECUTE: 2007 horse injury suit properly dismissed for inaction… Menahan affirmed (memorandum). [Read more…]

Filed Under: Past Issues, Supreme Court - Civil Tagged With: Curt Drake, David Gallik, Patricia Klanke

Marital, common law marriage, California v. Montana

March 7, 2020 By lilly

MARITAL: Common law marriage properly found to have commenced in 1977 in California, not 1989 upon move to Montana… Gilbert affirmed (IOR I-3(c)). [Read more…]

Filed Under: Past Issues, Supreme Court - Civil Tagged With: David Gallik, Hertha Lund, James Lippert

Easement, landlocked river property

January 11, 2020 By lilly

EASEMENT: Implied/prescriptive easements established over road through private river property for residential/recreation use for otherwise landlocked properties… Pinski. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Past Issues, State Trial Courts Tagged With: Anne Sherwood, David Gallik, Frederick Sherwood

$37,343.50 verdict, service dog deposit

June 17, 2017 By lilly

VERDICT: $37,343.50, housing disability discrimination, charging $1,000 deposit for service animal. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Federal Trial Courts, Past Issues Tagged With: Brendan McCarthy, David Gallik, Katherine Ladewski, Kevin Brown, Timothy Kelly

Marital, wife’s premarital assets, maintenance/fees

April 1, 2017 By lilly

MARITAL: Wife’s substantial premarital assets properly excluded from estate… handyman husband denied maintenance/fees… Cooney affirmed. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Past Issues, Supreme Court - Civil Tagged With: Barbra Burleigh, David Gallik

Prescriptive easement, width for mining machines

February 11, 2017 By lilly

PRESCRIPTIVE EASEMENT: Width established as 14 feet to accommodate widest mining machine, but gates must be removed or relocated if necessary to get machines through… fees properly denied Claim Owners… Tucker affirmed, reversed (IOR I-3(c)). [Read more…]

Filed Under: Past Issues, Supreme Court - Civil Tagged With: David Gallik, Valerie Wilson

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